Most godly prayers compiled out of Davids PsalmsMost godly prayers compiled out of Dauids Psalmes

¹WE look for thy assistant help (O most mighty God) with an exceeding heaviness of mind in these our most troublesome mishaps, elevating our eyes to thee only, through whose mighty power, like as we know that heaven and earth was created, so also our assured hope is that thou canst deliver us from these present mischiefs. Verily we acknowledge our sins to be such as they have deserved to be punished with these sore afflictions and grievous chastisements. For we have not yielded due honour and reverence unto thee when as thou didst call us to the profession of thy sacred gospel, but seeking our own profit only, have miserably neglected thy renowned honour and famous glory. Weigh not therefore (O good GOD) this our ingratitude and wickedness committed: but (for thy infinite mercies sake) keep our feet from falling, by settling them so in thy holy law and sacred commandments, as they swerve not at all therefrom. Moreover seem not to slumber or sleep touching the defence and preservation of thy blessed Church being so sore afflicted. If it hath been thy accustomable ⟨image 207⟩manner to defend thy faithful servants from the heat of the Sun in the day time, and from the cold of the Moon in the night, despise not us that suffer so many and great torments through the fury and outrageous woodness of Antichrist: preserve not only our souls and life from his subtle devices, but especially maintain thou thy pure religion, which he doth most of all fight against. For our earnest request is that thou wouldest so direct the beginnings and endings of our doings, in the true paths of thy blessed commandments, as they may perpetually abide in the perfect rule thereof, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.